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What you're seeing is blown-out highlights. These are areas of your picture where the bright stuff (highlights) have been so overexposed (blown-out) that all detail has been lost. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but usually is. The proper fix is to reduce exposure slightly. Lost details in the dark areas are usually considered more acceptable than lost details in the bright areas.

If you simply don't want to see the blinking black/white parts of your picture, simply press up/down on the multiselector to select a different view of your picture.

It's possible that your Highlight Alert is enabled. Over-exposed areas of your image will blink to indicate blown-out whites. If you don't like this feature, go to the Menu, under the second blue tab (for playback), look for Highlight Alert and Disable it. When viewing the image on a computer, the blinking will not appear however. It's just to warn you that some parts of the image is so bright that all detail is lost. I enable mine so that I know this and is able to make adjustments on the ground.

This is a tool to tell you where your photo is under or overexposed. If you use the up/down button to scroll through the display options (file info, shutter speed, filename...etc) will take you to the view where the highlights are shadowed or whited out. One of the views has no data or highlighting. Just leave the view there.

The Nikon dSLRs have various LCD display modes, and one of them is called "highlight clipping warning display". Basically, when you set your LCD display to "highlight clipping warning display"(it's the mode right before the "histogram display"), it blinks white/black wherever your picture has blown highlights (i.e. where your picture is overexposed)

A histogram display is very helpful in telling whether you've got the
exposure right, but to it isn't adequate by itself. With digital
cameras, it's very important not to blow-out the highlights in a
picture (they're similar to color positive film in that respect), since
once you hit the maximum brightness, the image just saturates, and any
highlight detail will be lost. A histogram display does a pretty good
job of telling you how the image as a whole is doing, but what if there
are just a few critical areas that you're worried about for the
highlights? If only a small percentage of the total frame is involved,
it won't account for many pixels. That means any peak at the "white"
end of the histogram graph would be pretty small, and easy to miss (or
just plain invisible). What to do? The folks at Nikon recognized this
problem some time ago, and so have provided another special display
mode on the D60 (as on most of their dSLRs) that they simply call
"highlights," accessible via the Playback settings menu, under "Display
Mode." This mode blinks any highlights that are saturated in any of the
color channels. It does this by taking the nearly-white areas on the
LCD and toggling them between white and black.

You have the camera in Highlights mode.. while in playback use the up,down,right,left pad press it up and it will go through different displays like what settings you had the camera in when you took the picture then there is a graph screen... after that one is the highlights display which is what you have it on. Push up one more time to have it on regular playback mode. The manual explains this much better than I just did. If you have the manual you should check it out if my instructions dont help.

Hi there,
This happens when you accidentally press the up or down button when viewing images on the playback. If you press up or down a few times it goes to a screen that looks like normal playback but with the flashing highlights.
All you need to do is press up or down until it goes back to the normal screen.
Hope that helps!

You're looking at the blown-out highlights. These are areas where you've lost all detail. Press up/down on the multiselector to change the view. Better yet, reduce the exposure to reduce/eliminate them.

Hey timrowan, What you’re seeing is your playback mode is set to highlight, which flashes all the highlights (bright areas) of your images that are overexposed. If you don't like this viewing option you should be able to change your viewing mode by pressing mutiselector button to the right or left until you get to normal viewing. I hope this helps!Sincerely,AllanGo Ahead. Use Us.